Inside Obama's New York win

11/24/12 12:54 PM EST

President Obama annihilated Mitt Romney in New York City on Election Day, 81 percent to 18 percent, but that result obscures the fascinating tale the precinct-level results tell about the lush diversity of the city and its politics.

• In 91 of the city’s 5,286 precincts, Obama won 100 percent of the vote.

• East Asian precincts in Flushing, Queens, and in Chinatown in Manhattan voted heavily for Obama.

• Obama’s worst precincts were in Orthodox Jewish areas including Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway and Williamsburg and Kew Gardens Hills in Queens. Romney took more than 90 percent in several precincts in Brooklyn’s Borough Park.

Manhattan

• Obama won the Upper East Side, though it was one of his weakest areas in Manhattan.

• Romney won a single Manhattan precinct outright (he tied Obama in the precinct that’s home to Donald Trump and Trump Tower).

• Romney had strong support from a range of neighborhoods with large populations of Orthodox Jews, regardless of income level. He won more than 90 percent in many precincts in the Borough Park and Sheepshead Bay neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

• In a few precincts, Romney was outpolled by Green Party nominee Jill Stein. In one section of Prospect Heights, Obama won 538 votes, Stein won 20 votes and Romney got zero.

Queens

• Obama’s support was strong in the predominantly black neighborhoods of southeastern Queens, and but he only won the white precincts in northeast Queens by a small margin.

• In 17 precincts of Middle Village, Queens – a mostly white ethnic (Irish, German, Polish, and Italian) and working class neighborhood -- Obama won by fewer than four percentage points.